Government is too big when it spends beyond its means

Nice try, but I don’t buy columnist Andrew Heller’s constitutional caricature in Sunday’s paper. Nobody argues with services we as a society need and can afford.

Heller loves his family and wants the best for them, but does he provide services for them that he can’t pay for? When his newspaper’s expenses continued to exceed its income, what did it do? It downsized.

Whether it’s a family, business or government, if it persists in living beyond its means, it eventually fails. That’s when Big Government is too big.

Heller’s column is an illustration of how socialism slowly seduces citizens with the promise of endless, ever-expanding goodies. By the time we wake up, it’s too late. We’re already slaves on Uncle Sam’s Plantation, dependent on the government for everything and taxed to death.